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applegrove

(118,661 posts) Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:49 PM Dec 2012

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"Private Prison Executive Says Lying To A Federal Agency Is Just Fine" [View all]

Private Prison Executive Says Lying To A Federal Agency Is Just Fine

By Nicole Flatow at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/11/1312751/private-prison-executive-says-lying-to-a-federal-agency-is-just-fine/

"SNIP............................................

ATTORNEY: You would agree it would be wrong to give false testimony against somebody, correct?

WIERDSMA: Um [long pause]. Yes.

ATTORNEY: Similarly, would it be wrong to give false testimony to a federal agency?

WIERDSMA: No, not at all. Happens all the time.

...........................................SNIP"

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"Private Prison Executive Says Lying To A Federal Agency Is Just Fine" [View all] applegrove Dec 2012 OP

This class war is also an information war, with the rich & ceos hoarding applegrove Dec 2012 #1

k&R midnight Dec 2012 #2

Sounds like a typical sociopath. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #3

Give him credit for saying the truth at the right time. Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #4

Give him credit for telling the truth... We People Dec 2012 #6

Perjury for you and me Tsiyu Dec 2012 #5

Should be in his own prison. JEB Dec 2012 #7

I may have to rethink my opposition to the death penalty, but only if it's a hanging. Kennah Dec 2012 #8

Sounds like the upper crust EC Dec 2012 #9

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